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So the two options I mentioned have almost equal PI, indicating the 1600MHz EC11 would probably not outperform 1333 EC9, not by much anyway. So, all in all, considering that 256GB allows for bigger projects than 128GB, I am now leaning towards the 256GB/1333.

I am really glad you included Photoscan in benchmarks on Anandtech! This is one of few pieces of software that can stress hardware in a number of interesting ways. And PS is getting more and more popular by the minute! I am particularly interested in how memory speeds improve PS performance - it seems to be quite the bottleneck in some stages.I am also curious to know if/whether full utilization of CPU and two GPUs at the same time causes enough thermal issues to result in throttling. I saw that Anand in his review of new Mac Pro, in order to fully saturate the hardware, had to run two programs (Furmark and Prime, and it DID cause slowdown), well now Photoscan alone could do the trick (Build Dense Point Cloud step). I can't wait to see whether Mac Pro's cooling solution is sufficient for Photoscan. And lastly, it would be great to see how does dual D700 compare in OpenCL performance to dual 7970s or 290s on regular PC builds.

I'm currently sitting here with a 12 core Xeon with 24 threads, 32GB DRAM 1600 C11, and it doesn't seem to be any faster than a 4960X. This is because the single threaded speed of the Xeon is poor, and despite having 2x threads, is down 25% in MHz for the multithreaded stuff. I will add these results on my Xeon article, coming soon (hopefully).